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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S.'C WOMAN'S WORLD Careful Storage Is Necessary to Prevent Moth Damage By Ertta Haley If you want to experience a warm ing glow of satisfaction next fall upon taking out your woolens, store them carefully during warm weath er. Sweaters, skirts, snowsuits, blank ets and other knitted garments offer excellent territory for moths to work unless they are carefully pre pared for storage- It’s most dis heartening to take out something •imply to find that moths have had a field day in clothes while you’ve been enjoying summer sun. Moth .damage is unnecessary if clothing and blankets have been properly cleaned and stored. One preparation is not enough. Even though clothing is clean, moths may still pounce upon it if you have not put it away in bags which are sealed against infestation. If clothing is only partially clean and sealed tight, this will not prevent damage. Both methods of prevention are the only guarantee to complete safekeeping. If clothing and blankets can be washed, the homemaker can save a lot of money by doing the york herself. For those items which can not be laundered, professional clean- Guard woolens against moths . . . lug and immediate sealing in moth tight containers is the answer. When you’re doing the work your self, set aside one or two days for putting away your woolens. Even though this seems like a lot of time to spend on the task, you’ll appre- jdate being able to get out wearable and usable things when cold weather comes. Closets, too, may need prepara tion for receiving the clothes, and this should not be neglected if you want to assure the clothing of com plete protection. Wash or dust the walls of the closets, then spray them with moth proofing liquid. Plan to keep the closets closed during storage time. Ctaard Against Shrinkage When Washing Woolens Some woolens are pre-shrunk or what is the equivalent of sanfor izing in other materials, but many of them will shrink unless carefully laundered. Take measurements before laun dering, or draw diagrams of clothing from the pieces themselves if they are wearing appareL This should be done before garments be come shapeless from too much wear. Use large pieces of brown wrapping paper for the purpose as the clothing will be placed against the diagrams for drying. Ric Rac Trim This cotton fashion from Flori da will carry yon merrily through summer months. The dress has a bare look camisole top that can be covered with a pert jacket, truly enormous pockets, each divided in half with center stitching to make four altogether, and a full, flow ing skirt. It’s washable and comes in light blue, aqua or pink with contrasting ric rac trim. Water used for washing woolens should never be warmer than 100° or when dropped against the inside of the wrist cannot be felt. Use a mild soap or detergent for washing. Woolens stretch when they’re washed, and the fibers soften con siderably. For this reason, avoid soaking them. The generally accepted method for washing woolens consists of squeezing the garment gentlyfive or six times, in the soft suds. No rub- witb well-tested methods. bing or twisting operations should be used as this will cause the fibers to lock and give that harsh, tough and shrunken look to the material when dry. For cuffs or collars on woolen gar ments which are perhaps a little more soiled than the rest of the clothing, use extra soap on those parts and squeeze gently with the fingertips until clean. Rinse three times after the wash ing, and do this as gently as the THE READER'S COURTROOM Bottle From Balcony Brings Suit -By Will Bernard, LLB - If a Moviegoer Is Hit By A Bottle From tte Balcony, May He Collect Damages? One hot slimmer day, a theater owner decided it would be a clever stunt to sell pop to the customers. That evening, a high-school boy bought a bottle of root beer and sat down in the first row of the bal cony. At an exciting moment in the picture, the boy unconsciously let the bottle slip out of his fingers —and it dropped squarely on top of a man sitting downstairs! The blow raised quite a lump on the man’s head, and he later filed a damage suit against the theater owner. After considerable oratory on both sides, the court granted the man’s claim. The judge figured that, if the owner wanted to sell pop to customers in the balcony, he should - have sold it in paper cups! • * • A girl was driving along the highway when a truck suddenly backed into the road. She swerved sharply-r-and crashed into a tree. Injured, the girl filed a damage action against the trucking firm. However, when she took the wit ness stand she admitted that she had been driving without a licenc#* The judge said that both the girl said the truck driver had violated the law, but he decided the case in favor of the girl anyhow. His Honor pointed out that the truck driver had caused the accident A retired opera singer decided to do some teaching in her home. Soon she had lessons going from dawn ’till dark—and even took over the coaching of an entire choral group. Unfortunately, her neigh bors did not take kindly to this artistic endeavor. After fretting awhile, they went to court for a stop-order—claiming that the sing er’s property was restricted to “residential purposes only.” The woman argued that she was using her house “mainly as a residence,” but she was defeated. * • • Is Bullfighting Legal— If the Matadors Don't Use Swords? A promoter had a bright idea one day. Why not put on a “humane” bullfight? Why not arm the mata dors with wooden canes, instead of swords, so the bulls wouldn’t get hurt? He rented a stadium, im ported several bulls, and set a date for the big show. Promptly local officials went to court for a stop- order. The promoter argued that he was taking the cruelty out of bull fighting but the court was not con vinced and banned the show as a “public nuisance.” The judge pointed out that the lack of swords made things safer for the bulls— but riskier for the matadors! “The state is much more interested in the safety of its citizens” quoth His Honor “than in the safety of the bulls.” washing. Here again, water should not be more than 100®. A marvelous softener for wool ens uses the simple procedure of adding just a bit of glycerine to the rinse water. You’ll find this bene ficial for clothing as well as blank ets. Moths Attack Spots, Stains First Thorough cleaning or laundering are best protections against moth damage, but often it’s not possible to clean garments or certain heavy Aciean Closets items of bedding. In this case, go |to Get Rid of Moths wearing apparel or blankets in chests, place clean paper between the folds, and scatter naphtalene flakes on the paper. These flakes are inexpensive and quite effective, if used in large enough quantity. The paper makes them easier to brush off clothing and blankets when they’re brought back into use. Moth balls placed in pockets are usually not enough to give protec tion by themselves. Use flakes ip addition to thehi. over the article very carefully and remove spots and stains, since these are the first points of attack by moths. When articles have been laundered or cleaned completely, airing in the sun is not necessary before storage. If you have, however, resorted to spot and stain removal only, it’s an excellent idea to hang them out- of-doors on a day when there’s a good, brisk breeze. , Tobacco particles in pockets and such are no guarantee against moth damage. Brush these out as care fully as you would any dust. When garment bags are used, they should be sealed tightly enough to prevent moths from going through. No sealed bag, however, is any protection if the garment has a moth or any larvae in it when it’s sealed. Cedarized chests and cedar-lined closets are effective only if they are tightly sealed, and if garments are thoroughly clean before storage. If you store woolen articles of Once moths have invaded a closet, get rid of them as quickly and as effectively as possible to prevent the whole house from becoming in fested. Once the whole house is in vaded, it’s difficult to destroy them unless you get a competent fumi gating expert. Infested closets should^ have every thing removed from them. Hang all clothing outside in sun and breeze and brush thoroughly. All pieces should be cleaned or laundered. Remove shelves and drawers in the closet itself, /end scrub them all out with soap and water. Any loose fixtures should be removed and cleaned thoroughly, since these, too, may harbor moths. Baseboards as well as cracks in the floors and walls should be thoroughly scrubbed, Once the closet is thoroughly cleaned, you may seal the cracks with putty, plaster patch ing or a sprayed plastic so they will not be able to harbor moths or larvae. KATHLEEN NORRIS Glamour Is Ruining the Movies ** n GROUP of housekeeping ** women in Buffalo want to get a message to Hollywood. How do we do it? We think we know what’s the matter with the movies,” writes Mary Cuttery. “We are neighbors and friends,” her letter goes on, “we do our own work, our own washing, we share the care of 38 children, the oldest not yet 12. Isn’t that a pretty good record? And we love the movies. We don’t play bridge, we can’t afford night clubs, but there’s nothing that car ries one through a hard long day quite as well as the thought of a good picture in the evening, with a drugstore soda to follow. “But, equally, nothing is so tir ing as a poor movie—unless it’s two poor movies, and we’ve been burned pretty often of late. We’sit f through bad pictures, through sheer weariness and laziness but their memory makes us a little more wary next time. “Now, I’ll tell you what we’ve decided is wrong. It’s the girls. Those eternal new stars and star lets and Tinds’ and ‘discoveries* with their gromed hair that no storm or shipwreck musses, their perfect frocks, their eyelashes, their plaster-image beauty. Can’t we get some natural, human-looking girls who can really act, onto the screen?” Don’t Have to Act With this letter, Mary, I entirely agree. We’ve heard a good many reasons why pictures are losing ". . . girl stars are puppets ..." their popularity; this is the main one. Hollywood girls don’t have to act; they not only don’t try but they can’t understand why they should try to express emotions, ex press fear, surprise, passion. Men who depended upon clothes, eye lashes, lovely bare legs and rippling masses of well-brushed hair as a claim to success would not be giv en a second chance. Our male stars are actors. Our girl stars are pup pets for dramatic clothing, in pic turesque setting, and are living in so exciting and gratifying an atmos phere—while it lasts—that it never seems to cross their minds that anything is wrong. I am an enthusiastic movie lover, but there is not one woman star whose name can lure me away from my comfortable study at night. One or two of the older ones, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, perhaps, are occasionally given plays worth seeing, but even they need more and more the prop of a variegated and famous group of males to carry the picture. On the other hand, there are 20 or 30 male stars whose fans never miss a picture. Few of these are conspicious for beauty. To list Robinson, Rains, Pidgeon, Coleman, Tracy, Mason, Cooper, Niven, Don- levy, Olivier, Laughton, is not to catalog men conspicious for good looks. Twenty more fine character actors, usually seen in supporting roles, would include some notice ably homely men. But these men are actors. They feel what they play; they live it I have seen the giddy Dan Dailey do an exquisits, bit of serious acting, -and will go on record that Victor Mature, who had to endure an inordinate amount oi hilarious publicity when he first en tered the lists, is to become a really great star. There is a Reason When pictures with only a very subordinated feminine interest scars heavily at the box office, does ft not occur to producers that there ii a reason? In this category would ba most of last year’s successes: “AO the Kings Men,” “Command Deci sion,” “Champion,” “The Falles Idol,” “Red River,” “The Hasty Heart,” “Battleground,” “Sword la the Desert,” “The Window,” “Sundowners,” “Down To The Sea," “Bicycle Thief,” and, of Course, many more whose names I can’* recall. There were parts for wom en in a few of these, but they wer« comparatively unimportant, and th< women themselves were compara tively unknown and unspoiled. Othei pictures, much advertised, and with famous stars in some instan ces, were not liked, even with tk< help of horses, mules, and runs ol tuna fish. In one costly picture some yean ago a famous woman star played the part of a peasant girl who had been brutally iU-treated by soldiers, her head shaved, her clothing in rags, and her poor mind shaken bj the horrors of war. The great stai wore, in this picture, a most be coming crop of short curls, and s smart little sweater-skirt outfit thav might have come straight fronc Firth Avenue. In another reallj magnificent picture, enhanced bj her own fine dancing, the womai star attached to her head a dis tracting mop of heavy hair. Plants Thrive In Skyscrapers Trees, Wishing Wells Hoisted to Gardens NEW YORK.—Dirt costs $2 pet 100 pounds, f. o. b. an elevator or Park avenue. The bird's nests are imported. Shade trees and wishing wells are hoisted by derrick in the Head ol night. The upkeep on a garden, ones it’s hoisted to a skyscraper, runi from $50 to $2,500 a year. But Mrs. Arthur C. Fatt com plains that half her company won’t go out and look “because they’re so afraid of heights.” Mrs. Fatt plants $900 worth oi flowers a year 20 stories abovre Fifth avenue in the shade of 15 trees apd two elevator shafts. It can add up to too much atten tion, Mrs. Fatt acknowledged. “One day we found the soil was a little too sweet,’’ she said.. “We had to sprinkle vinegar on it.” Hal Phyfe, a photographer, rent ed his penthouse home and studio complete with Greek pillars, blue tile reflecting pools and 400 feet of privet hedge. But he had to import his own bird’s nest. The gardener obligingly picked it out of a tree in Pennsylvania and set it among the buds of a potted English hawthome tree. “I don’t know what kind of a bird to expect,” he admitted. Mme. Helena Rubenstein plants her garden in a serpentine bed a la Thomas Jefferson 14 stories above Park avenue and paints her flower pots to match her drawing room upholstery and the newest shades in eye/Shadow. SCRIPTURE: Zephaniah. especially 1:12-18; 3:1-5: 3:16-20. , DEVOTIONAL READING: Psalm 111: 1-10. » Repentance Lesson for June 11, 1950 Z EPHANIAH seldom has been any reader’s favorite prophet. His pictures of doom are enough to send shudders down any one’s spine. It .is as realistic as if he were describing H-bomb day. But the main point of zephaniah is plain and practical: Re-' pent! For selfish man and stubborn nation, that is the first necessity of all. Repentance is not merely regret ting something one has done. Anybody can do that-and Dr - Foreman go right on committing the safte sin. Furthermore, a man’s regret for something he has done may be for a wrong reason. Suppose an adulterer is sorry for the publicity he got when the news papers caught up with him? Sup pose a lazy farmer is sorry, at harvest time, that he didn’t work harder during the summer? That sort of thing is not repentance at all Also, repentance is not just repentance-in-general. It Is one thing to say, “O God, I am a sinner.” It is quite another thing, and a harder one, to kneel and say to God: “You know well what a liar I have been.” , Repentance is not real unless it is honest; and it is not honest till the repenter looks squarely at his own sins, knows them for real sips and is willing to call them by the ugly names they deserve. Repentance As The ^ Bible Sees It T HE BIBLE MEANING of re pentance is something radical, something life-changing. As the prophets and our Lord set it be-' fore us, it means a total change of inner attitude and viewpoint It does not mean so much stopping something you enjoy, as it means enjoying something altogether dif ferent from what you used to en joy. For example, you never truly repent of pride until you are really humble on the inside. You never, have fully repented of selfishness so long as your biggest “kick” comes from kicking other people around. Repentance means a re direction of life. It means loving whatever good you hated and hating whatever evil you loVed. The question is: Are you con tent to be what you are, as you are, or do you sincerely want to be a better, indeed a differ ent person? For that, the grace of God is necessary. For re pentance means nothing short of being made over. Are you aware that by yourself you are doomed to be yourself, your worst self? What is needed is not that you shall make yourself over, what is needed is that you shall pray God to make you over. His grace is not forced on the un willing. The change may not come Oil at once, not overnight. Yet sure ly, and it may be swiftly. There have been persons whose lives have changed in a single night, in a single moment. There are others whose life - transformation has come slowly. > But wherever real repentance is, there the Spirit of God has been at work. • • • - Why Repentance Is Needed Z EPHANIAH -POINTS UP the same two reasons for repent ance that we find all through the Bible. One reason is the judgment of God; the other is the promise of God. These are two sides of the same thing. Man does not live in his own uni verse. He lives in a universe which he could not have created—in a sense he is a guest of it. It is a universe God created in love, and rules in love. Work and live “against the grain” of God's law of love, and you are headed for de struction. To repent means that you come out new, in the image of God. Not to repent means that you are a breaker of God’s laws because you do not like his laws. To repent means that (in the language of the ancient Psalmist) you love the law of God. To the unrepentant, the laws of God are like the bars of a cruel cage. To the repentant, the laws of God are like rails to a locomotive —the highway of power. (Readers who wish to examine the Bible’s teachings on repentance should read “The Meaning of Re pentance” by William Douglas Chamberlain, published by the Westminister Press.) PIRST CHOICE OF MU New Potatoes, Fresh Asparagus Team With Pork Chops (See Recipes Below) sgig ( W"? O Spring Vegetable Treats As gentle showers coax brilliant ly colored vegetables from the moist brown earth, imaginative home makers can perform equally mirac-' ulous deeds with the foods in their kitchens. With a dash of imagination, all vegetables can come in for plenty of honors and encores. A special set of season ings, a few sauces, or a cer tain arrange ment of several vegetables are all that are needed to make any member of the vegetable family a real treat. Golden carrots, plump asparagus spears, deep green spinach and snowy white onions, as well as others lend themselves to the recipes given in today’s column. Use them often to pep the vegetable portions of your daily menus. • • • Spring Vegetable Casserole (Servea 4) , 4 ounces elbow spaghetti Va cup butter 1 tablespoons enriched flour K teaspoon salt Pepper 1 cup vegetable liquid 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 to 1)4 cups cooked aspar agus v 94 cup buttered bread crumbs Cook spaghetti in boiling salted Water until tender (about eight minutes). Drain and rinse. While spaghetti is cooking, melt butter in saucepan. Add flour, salt and pep per and mix well. Gradually pour in vegetable liquid and lemon juice stirring constantly until thickened. Cut asparagus into one-inch pieces leaving four or five spears whole for garnish. Fold cut asparagus and spaghetti into sauce. Pour into greased IVz quart casserole. Ar range uncut asparagus spears on top and sprinkle with buttered bread crumbs. Bake in, a moderate oven (350°) 30 minutes. • • • •Spring Salad Plate (Serves 6) 2 pounds asparagus, fresh- cooked whole stalks 6 medium-sized beets, cooked 94 cup French dressing 6 hard-cooked eggs 1 cucumber Leaf lettuce Stuffed olives Gut beets in thin slices. Spread asparagus and beets in shallow dish. Pour French dressing over them; let stand in refrigerator one hour or more. Re move shells from hard- cooked eggs, cut each egg in half lengthwise and remove yolks to bowl. Mash yolks with fork; add any desired sea sonings, mayon naise, etc. Refill egg whites with mixture. Cover with waxed paper and keep in refrigera tor until serving time. Arrange let tuce on individual plates, dividing into three sections. Place alternat ing slices of beets and cucumber in another section. Place two deviled egg halves in third. Garnish with stuffed plives. stuffed olives. Tasty, salt crackers are often served with salad plates. LYNN SAYS: Store Foods Carefully During Warm Weather Honey and other syrups thin out during warm weather. They should be tightly covered and stored at room temperature. Cold tempera tures such as those available in re frigeration may cause them to crystalize. Curtail your supply on hand ol dried fruits during hot weather be cause of the ease with which wee vils attack them. Buy only as need ed. WNU Features.) LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU Ham Loaf with Raisin Sauce •Spring Salad Plate Corn Muffins Butter Jelly . Baked Custard Chocolate Sauce Brownies Beverage •Recipe Given French Fried Asparagus (Serves S) 1 No. 2 can asparagus spears •r 24 to 27 fresh asparagus spears® 94 cup flour ^ 94 teaspoon salt Dash onion salt 1 egg, beaten 1 tablespoon water 1 cup dry bread crumbs Drain juice from asparagus spears. Combine flour, salt and onion salt; roll each asparagus spear in this mixture. Group throe floured asparagus spears together. Dip each group in combined beaten egg and water and dry bread crumbs deep fat'(890®.) for or until brown. Serve hot • Fresh Vegetable C{tow Mein (Serves 8) 1 cup thin celery strips 94 cup sliced onion 1 medium green pepper, sliced in thin strips 94 pound green beans, cut lengthwise 3 carrots. Julienne cut 2 cups chicken stock or bouiOion 2 teaspoons salt 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 tablespoon bead molasses 94 cup sliced or tiny button mushrooms 2 tablespoons cornstarch 3 tablespoons water 2 tomatoes, cut in wedges Cook celery, onion, beans and car rots in stock for 30 minutes. Add salt, soy sauce, bead molasses and mushrooms. Combine com- starch and. water, then grad ually add to above mixture. Cpok for an addi tional 10 minutes. Add tomatoes during the last three minutes of cooking. Serve on Toasted Bread Sticks: Leave crusts on six slices of day-old bread. Cut bread into strips 94 inch thick on all sides. Toast on a cookie sheet in a moderate oven (350*.) for 20 minutes. Turn them so they will be golden brown on all sides. Serve with creamed foods. * • • Creamed Spinach (Serves 6) 194 pounds spinach 2 tablespoons butter 1 onion, sliced 94 slice garlic, minced 2 tablespoons bread crumbs 94 teaspoon salt 94 teaspoon pepper Dash of nutmeg 1 cup soup stock or milk Wash spinach thoroughly. Cook without any additional water until tender (about 10 minutes). Drain and chop fine. Melt butter, add onion and garlic and brown. Then add remaining ingredients and spin ach and cook together five minutes. Leave berries in baskets in which they were purchased and store in a cool place. Wash just before us ing. Dried dates should not be refrig erated because they become sticky and sugary. Keep canned fodds away from moisture so they do not become rusted, and thus spoiled. Because of their pronounced odor, oranges, lemons and melons be wrapped in heavy waxed paper before they are stored in the refrig. erator ■s Relieves Soreness, Aches and Pains of the Muscles. 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